Academic Writing by
How do I improve my essay writing skills? Where can I learn quickly how to improve my speech writing? How does writing for the web differ from conventional writing? Are there some categories of mistakes that people commonly make in attempting to write good prose? How can I be persuasive in my writing style? How did language evolve? What is genre theory ? How do I become creative in my prose writing? These and other curious and relevant questions are answered in Academic Writing. Writing is about communication with words, and academic writing is about choosing words carefully to communicate complex ideas. The purpose of the fourteen chapters of this monograph is to provide an introduction to the practice of academic writing with an emphasis on prose writing in particular, for both print-based and online media. Each of the fourteen chapters explores different aspects of academic writing from practical, professional and theoretical perspectives. The book is written for students, teachers and educators at tertiary organisations. Word connoisseurs, debaters, writers and readers may also enjoy its argumentations and analyses."
Academic Writing : A Guide for Management Students and Researchers by
This book helps students and researchers write better assignments, better dissertations, and better papers for publication. Characterizing academic writing as an integral part of the knowledge generation and dissemination process, it focuses on three main aspects: understanding research, documenting and sharing the process and results of research, and acknowledging the use of other people's ideas in the documentation. The authors use various samples of good as well as defective writing to illustrate the features of academic writing. They describe in detail the structure and contents of academic papers, especially conceptual and empirical research papers for journals. This lucidly written book will be a rich resource for MBA students and researchers working for MPhil and PhD degrees, especially in the fields of management, behavioural sciences and communications.
Academic Writing : Process and Product by
This book provides a foundation and framework to enhance your understanding of the various processes involved in academic writing. The term, academic writing, here refers to the types of writing used in college level writing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. However, this book was not written simply to help you pass another English class or to get you through the next writing intensive course (although it will certainly do that). At some point you will be out in the real world (hopefully). Thus, the purpose of this book is to enable you to be an effective writer and thinker in all contexts including your personal and professional lives.
Academic Writing and Interdisciplinarity by
This book critically explores academic interdisciplinarity, a relatively new area of student writing in our contemporary contexts, from different perspectives: disciplinary integration, generically diverse assessment tasks, linguistic capital, pedagogical practices, extra-disciplinarity, pedagogic desire, curricular issues, and socio-economic imperatives. Dr ChandrasomaOCOs work also offers a comprehensive study of how student writers grapple Other interdisciplinary knowledge in the academy. Si..."
Stylish Academic Writing by
Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can't get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read--and to write.
Boolean Logic is Algebra that works with logical rather than numeric relationships.
Algebra comes from the Arabic al-jebr meaning "reunion of broken parts" (jebr can be pronounced either gobre or jobre)
Boolean Logic is a form of algebra in which the variables have a logical value of TRUE or FALSE.
Boolean Operators
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OR = Can be thought of as EITHER. It is used to find either one term or another. In online searching OR serves to broaden a search and is used to search synonymous or closely related terms.
NOT = Can be thought of as AND NOT. It is used to eliminate records. In online searching it serves to narrow a search. Exercise caution when using the Boolean NOT as needed concepts may be eliminated unintentionally.
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